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IPSec General Operation, Components and Protocols
(Page 1 of 3)
I have a confession to make: I considered
not writing about IPSec in this Guide. When you find yourself writing
a tome as large as this one, you lose stamina sometimes and there's
this urge to avoid writing about confusing subjects. J
IPSec isn't the only difficult topic in this Guide but it is definitely
a subject that baffles many because it's hard to get your hands around.
Most discussions of it jump straight to describing the mechanisms and
protocols without providing a general description of what it does and
how the pieces fit together. Well, I recognized that IPSec is important
and I don't shy away from a challenge. Thus, here's my attempt to provide
a framework for understanding IPSec's various bits and pieces.
So, what exactly does IPSec do and
how does it do it? In general terms, it provides security services at
the IP layer for other TCP/IP protocols and applications to use. What
this means is that IPSec provides the tools that devices on a TCP/IP
network need in order to communicate securely. When two devices (either
end user hosts or intermediate devices such as routers or firewalls)
want to engage in secure communications, they set up a secure path
between themselves that may traverse across many insecure intermediate
systems. To accomplish this, they must perform (at least) the following
tasks:
- They must agree on a set of security
protocols to use, so that each one sends data in a format the other
can understand.
- They must decide on a specific encryption
algorithm to use in encoding data.
- They must exchange keys that are used
to unlock data that has been cryptographically encoded.
- Once this background work is completed,
each device must use the protocols, methods and keys previously agreed
upon to encode data and send it across the network.
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